#Nico x will

[deadbytbr]

Solangelo is sooooo cute!

[mariewrenau]

Solangelo hair kiss ❤️❤️

[peabodysautobodyrepair]

“Nico Di Angelo is a token gay! His coming out scene sucked!” babes I’m BEGGING you to remember 2013 gay characters were not allowed in children’s media.

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

All of your gay heroes in children’s media have Nico Di Angelo to thank. It was important, and good. It deserves to be celebrated, even if we’ve progressed past it since.

[ajolomuu]

depression post ToA

if they can’t be happy in canon i will draw them happy and comforting, otherwise i might lose it 💀💀

[theprinceofdarknesssquad]

Will: Look, I know you think my judgement's clouded because I like Nico a little bit. Percy, holding Will's notepad: You doodled your wedding invitation. Will: No, that's our joint tombstone. Percy: My mistake.

[livsoulsecrets]

Will: Let’s watch Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

Nico: Okay.

Will: And make out during the scary parts.

Nico: Th-

Nico: The scary parts.

Nico: Of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

[sleepyraywrites]

The sun and the star was amazing.

[milomilesmib]

Leo: what do you guys think the best way to die is?

Nico: firing squad

Leo: honestly I think it'd be best to just get really old then walk into the woods until you keel over

Will: yeah but do it in the late stages of dimentia

Nico, cackling: bro would be like "where am I?" then keep walking deeper into the woods

Nico, Leo, and Will, dying laughing:

Percy, terrified: what the fuck

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Will Solace be the type of guy who verbalizes "sigh" instead of just sighing. Nico be the boyfriend who mutters "anide" in his ear

[the-goddess-of-gays]

Percy: ADHD is such a trip, dude. You're trying to go to sleep and your brain is just like, "1 sheep, 2 sheep, sheep, horse, cow, Apollo's cows, Hera's cows, Hera's a cow, too many cows, what does the cow say? RING-DING-DING-DING-DINGERINGEDING–" Nico: That's not even the line. Percy: "GERING-DING-DING-DING-DINGERINGEDING–" Will: ...how did you get into our house?

[vixnarts]

Nico doesn’t seem to be pleased with being carried.

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

everything in my heart just wants a percabeth + solangelo team adventure. just. annabeth and will just running behind their boyfriends who are either a) unleashing their destructive powers on the world or b) rolling around fighting like street cats or c) just falling into traumatic depressive spirals together. it'd be the best double date ever. four tartarus survivors kicking butt.

[zxcantdrawmen]

nvr grow out of your tsats phase 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[i-am-an-omniscient-snail]

Dark Percy this, dark Jason that. Have you even LOOKED at Nico???

He survived Tartarus. ALONE. A place that Percy would never have made it through without Annabeth, a place that pushed him to the limits of his powers and morals. Let me repeat that. TARTARUS. Percy only glimpsed the horrors of that place, and he said it would have driven him insane. The strength of mind and will that journey must have taken, nevermind the power, should mark him out immediately.

When he gets mad, darkness pours from the ground around his feet. Skeletons and ghosts rise up around him. I've seen people talk about Percy exploding toilets, but that was when he was younger and had less control. Nico is so powerful that that happens when he's exhausted and upset. Plants around him wither and die when he doesn't actively prevent his power from overflowing. The potential for destruction in that is UNFATHOMABLE and he thinks nothing of it! NO ONE does!!

He commands ghosts and spirits and zombies, serves Hades, travels through Tartarus, shadow travels (the amount of strength his journey with Reyna must have taken??? Insane) all through the books. I honestly think he is even more overpowered than Percy, it just is ignored. He's not built up as anything more than an edgy loner, but he's damn powerful. A child of the Big Three. A son of HADES.

And this is his normal. We haven't seen his journey through Tartarus. We don't know what his Akhlys was. We can only guess at how destructive and powerful it was, because what we see is Nico as he is normally, not dark Nico.

Dark Nico would be terrifying.

[thementallyillapollochild]

Give me loser nico who literally just tries his best to make Will happy bc he's so in love it makes me wanna throw up